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02436aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 EB9A19FCB19A11E88C6D561597128E48 003 SILO 005 20180906010553 008 171011s2018 nyuabj b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781681777979 020 $a 1681777975 035 $a (OCoLC)1005691283 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d JSE $d GK8 $d GIP $d KCK $d ZQP $d OCLCF $d JP3 $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 100 1 $a Adams, Max, $d 1961- $e author. 245 14 $a The Viking wars : $b war and peace in King Alfred's Britain, 789-955 / $c Max Adams. 250 $a First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2018. 300 $a xviii, 509 pages : $b illustrations, maps, genealogical tables ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-489) and index. 520 $a A history of Britain in the violent and unruly era between the first Scandinavian raids in 789 and the final expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954. In 865, a great Viking army landed in East Anglia, precipitating a series of wars that would last until the middle of the following century. It was in this time of crisis that the modern kingdoms of Britain were born. In their responses to the Viking threat, these kingdoms forged their identities as hybrid cultures: vibrant and entrepreneurial peoples adapting to instability and opportunity. Traditionally, Alfred the Great is cast as the central player in the story of Viking Age Britain. But author Max Adams, while stressing the genius of Alfred as war leader, law-giver, and forger of the English nation, has a more nuanced narrative approach to this conventional version of history. The Britain encountered by the Scandinavians of the ninth and tenth centuries was one of regional diversity and self-conscious cultural identities, depicted in glorious narrative fashion in The Viking Wars. 600 00 $a Alfred, $c King of England, $d 849-899 $x Military leadership. 650 0 $a Vikings $x Warfare $z England. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $y Alfred, 871-899. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History, Military $y 449-1066. 941 $a 5 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010015945.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718093126.0 952 $l YCPD572 $d 20220518023126.0 952 $l UJPE911 $d 20181222010907.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20180906012847.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=EB9A19FCB19A11E88C6D561597128E48 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search